Parodies must strike a balance between imitation and mockery. When done right, that creates something funny, endearing and special — not quite…
Director Phil McKinley has helmed musicals on Broadway and high-powered shows around the world, but feels the Q-C born and bred “A Green River…
Pity the children’s show, one of the theater’s toughest acts. Successful theater for young people has to appeal to kids, of course. But let’s …
Quad-City Music Guild has created its own version of a Moline High School reunion by casting the trinity of Moline alums — Chase Austin, Adam …
For the first time in its 104-season history, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is commissioning a new opera, which will sing of the struggle, …
MOLINE — For the first time in its 104-season history, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is commissioning a new opera, which will sing of the s…
MOLINE — Quad-City Music Guild has created its own version of a Moline High School reunion by casting the trinity of Moline alums Chase Austin…
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DAVENPORT — Bettendorf native Ashley Becher knows the value that children's theater can offer everyone involved, and she and her husband, Bobb…
Two of William Shakespeare's best-known plays are planned to be performed in Genesius Guild's 2019 summer season.
“Stop the presses” takes on a new meaning in the electrifying, blissfully entertaining production of “Newsies: The Musical” at Circa '21 Dinne…
DAVENPORT — The QC Theatre Workshop attracted twice the number of applicants for its 2019 Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival as it did last y…
ROCK ISLAND — For the third time and the third state in less than a year, veteran director Jay Cranford is making news. He is staging the Q-C …
MOLINE — East Moline's Alex Richardson has a bright future as a playwright, and the venerable Playcrafters Barn Theatre, marking its 90th anni…
The Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse will close its 2017-2018 season with the comedy "Mama Won't Fly."
MOLINE — The new production at Playcrafters Barn Theatre — “Tuesdays With Morrie” — is profoundly meaningful for its director and actors.
Eleanor Kiel, director of music and liturgy, is in charge of a musical gift to the community: She’s the music director for the production of “…
The Quad-City Music Guild hosted the opening weekend of "West Side Story." The show will run through July 16.
Before Fred Applegate hit the Broadway stage and before he appeared on big and small screens, he remembers scrambling for a job.
The first rule of Quad-City Music Guild's "A Christmas Story," director Bob Williams says, is give the audience what it's expecting, down to t…
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It doesn't bother Curt Bouril in the least to be typecast.
The opening night audience for Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse's "A Wonderful Life" thoroughly enjoyed Don Denton's dead-on impersonation of Jimmy …
The "Big Rock Candy" schtick lives on.
With sometimes hilarious plays such as "Lend Me a Tenor," "Moon Over Buffalo" and "Leading Ladies," Ken Ludwig deserves a spot in the communit…
If you're sitting stoically in your seat in the Adler Theatre on Saturday night, then Erin Baltsar and the cast of "Girls Night: The Musical" …
There's some deja vu in the newest edition of "A Wonderful Life" at Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, with four of the lead roles being reprised by …
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